Commentary by Scott Herrmann With the rise of mHealth — mobile devices used both by patients and their physicians and nurses — competing articles have been appearing with some regularity arguing whether such devices are distractions to physicians and nurses or a gateway to timely information, more accurate diagnosis, and improved treatment. I did not […]
ContinuLink, LLC has announced a new software feature: LinkMail. Designed to help enhance communications within home health care agencies, the Boca Raton, Florida-based company says it has been designed to help improve patient care by eliminating the costly, inefficient games of phone tag and daisy chaining voice mails between office staff and field clinicians.
Several scenarios from Complete Home Health Care home health agency in Colorado are presented to illustrate the value of using CORHIO’s PatientCare 360®, a Web-based HIE tool that provides a longitudinal view of each patients’ medical history with information supplied by all of the hospitals, laboratories and public health entities connected to CORHIO, the […]
by Liz Seegert If there is anyone who knows what it takes to lower the cost of health care, it is former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. As someone steeped in policy for 30 years, one thing she says she knows for sure is that home health care needs to […]
Faced with capped reimbursements and rising operational costs, Mike Little and Maria Radwanski, RN MSN, CRRN, respectively CEO and President of Health Calls Home Health in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, have found success by staying ahead of the technology wave. At the top of their priority list was making their agency attractive to hospitals and for that […]
Bringing dental care services to elderly, disabled, and homebound patients is the mission of Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice (Garden Grove, CA). Due to the fact that oral health is vital to overall systemic health, ignoring it can cause many medical complications. Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice makes dental hygiene services more accessible to this group of […]
by Audrey Kinsella Personal Health Informatics Mull over that one. Not sure quite was it is? It is the field that targets ongoing personal healthcare needs and develops “wellness” technologies for individuals, not to be confused with patients. It is focused not on people with diseases but on health management information and tools that people […]
